Letter: A decade is long enough, bring soldiers home from Afghanistan

The Afghanistan war has been raging for a whole decade now. It has hurt our economy and has taken the lives of beloved U.S. soldiers who were husbands and wives. This war has left many spouses widowed.

The time for this war to end is now. The U.S. armed forces should leave the war-torn deserts of Afghanistan and come back to their beloved home.

Over 6,000 U.S. soldiers have died in the war so far. Number-wise, that doesn’t seem like much. But every time a soldier dies, it leaves a family with one less father, mother, sister, brother, friend, husband or wife, and one less person to defend our country.

The war is also hurting our recovering economy. It costs the government $390,000 per year to support each U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. That is a big roadblock in the path to stabilizing the U.S. economy.

If the soldiers came home, there would be more money to invest in building the economy and less money every American has to spend on gasoline.

There are facts that convince people to keep soldiers in Afghanistan. For example, there are still terrorists to be found; but most of them are without threat or power.

There is still cleaning and reparations to be made on Afghanistan land and in their government as well; but it will heal over time, so we should leave them now, trained to protect themselves against possible threats.

We should urge our government to let our troops come back home. Write a letter to the White House or vote-in a new, promising president.